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Project Brainstorm

Project Brainstorm is a UCLA registered student group whose goal is to stimulate interest in science for children and young adults in grades K-12.

CovEd: Continuing K-12 education during COVID-19

CovED is a community of undergraduates from some of the top colleges/universities across the U.S. who are interested in supporting K-12 students in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our goal is to create a virtual platform for pairing mentors from higher-ed institutions with K-12 students affected by school closures. We...

ExcEL Leadership Academy

ExcEL offers job-embedded, learn-by-doing program to help PK-12 teachers become more effective educators of multilingual learners in all academic areas. We are now offering two “micro-credential-based pathways” for teacher development: 1. Essential Support for Working with Multi-lingual Learners 2. Advanced Support for Working with Multi-lingual learners

Music Partnership Program

For over two decades, the Music Partnership Program has allowed passionate students to provide music training and mentoring to talented at-risk youth in Los Angeles’ most underserved communities. Each year, UCLA music students teach and inspire hundreds of inner-city youths across the partnership sites. While weekly lessons constitute the program’s...

ArtsBridge

ArtsBridge is a University of California program created to put the arts to work within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Each year, the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television prepares 10-12 undergraduate and graduate theater students to apply their university training in a K-12 classroom setting. The students...

The Culture and Equity Project

We offer professional development to expand educators’ knowledge of how to empower their students and use students’ cultural and linguistic capital as an asset in the classroom. We provide educators with theoretical and practical solutions so all students, regardless of their background, can reach their full academic potential. We believe...

Coaching Partnerships

Center X Coaching Partnerships supports schools in becoming self-directed, resourceful, and collaborative communities committed to social justice. We support schools and districts in growing their leadership capacity through on-site coaching and our offering of the Cognitive Coaching℠ and Adaptive Schools® Foundations Seminar.

Parent Project

Founded in 1997, the UCLA Parent Empowerment Project, housed in Center X in the Department of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, has provided research-based professional learning experiences supporting schools, communities and families to develop, implement, nurture and sustain culturally relevant and responsive family and village engagement and...

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Project provides support for PreK-12 educators engaging in the National Board Certification process requirements.

Weather Tour

If you are a teacher, K-12, we offer tours of our Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Department. Our AOS professor and director of meteorology, Dr. Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino, will present the instrumentation and methods behind meteorology and weather forecasting, explaining weather and climate terminologies, talk about careers in meteorology, and...

Teaching Heritage Languages: An Online Workshop for Educators

Three self-paced, online modules that introduce teachers of world and heritage languages to basic concepts of heritage language pedagogy. Module 1 will help you gain a better understanding of the important differences between heritage language learners (HLLs) and foreign language learners (FLLs). In the second module, you will learn about...

UCLA Recreation

UCLA Recreation Youth Programs offers a wide variety of summer camps for grades K–12. Located at UCLA, the camps emphasize each child’s needs and personal development within a group setting. Activities for younger children feature cooperative play and include indoor/outdoor games, arts and crafts, swimming, and field trips.

Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relationship Skills (PEERS)

The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) is world-renowned for providing evidence-based social skills programs to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults who are interested in developing and maintaining close friendships and/or romantic relationships. First developed at UCLA by PEERS® Clinic director, Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson, the program...

Principal Leadership

The purpose of the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) is to recruit, train, and support a diverse group of individuals committed to the principles of academic excellence, equity, and integrity as a way to maximize achievement and opportunity for students in urban schools. The PLI at UCLA has designed a rigorous...

UCLA Planetarium

The UCLA Planetarium offers planetarium shows, telescope shows and other astronomical activies free of charge to school and educational groups.

Parenting & Children’s Friendship Program

Since 1982, the UCLA Parenting & Children’s Friendship Program has helped thousands of families by teaching parents how to increase cooperation and giving children the skills to form meaningful friendships. If you have a child with behavioral problems or a child who struggles in social situations, our experts are here...

Parent Project

This project brings parents of diverse ethnic backgrounds together to share their expertise and to experience interactive California Curriculum Framework presentations by the UCLA Center X Subject Matter Projects. Parents have an opportunity to dialogue with principals, visit classrooms, and explore assessment practices. The participants then design action plans to...

Near Eastern Studies K-12 Outreach

The Center’s outreach activities in the area of K-12 education strive to create dynamic and diverse professional development opportunities for Los Angeles-based school teachers. Curriculum and resource development and dissemination are essential to our outreach program. The Center is a founding member of the Middle East Outreach Council, a national...

National Center for History in the Schools UCLA

Since 1988 the National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) has nurtured ties between the historical profession and classroom teachers in an effort to improve and enliven the teaching of history at all levels. Through publications, professional development, and community engagement, NCHS links UCLA to teachers and students in...

Gluck Fellows Music Outreach Program

Since 1996, the UCLA Gluck Fellows Music Outreach Program has been the beneficiary of a generous grant from the Max H. Gluck Foundation, which enables our finest UCLA music students to offer educational performances at over 150 schools, libraries, senior centers, and other nontraditional venues throughout Los Angeles County. Free...

Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden Tours

Our two hour field trips take place on Wednesdays & Fridays at 10 am. Self-guided and guided tours for K-12 can be booked for Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays between 9 am to 3 pm. For questions about K-12 field trips, please contact fieldtrips@ucla.edu.

UCLA Mathematics Project

The UCLA Mathematics Project (UCLAMP) at Center X is part of a statewide program that strives to make a positive impact on TK-12 educators, students, communities and school districts in the Los Angeles basin. Our goal is to partner with these entities to provide rich and transformative Mathematical experiences in...

Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement

Assists students at middle and senior high schools (and some elementary schools) so they excel in math and science and become competitively eligible for the most rigorous colleges and universities. The MSP partners with teachers, administrators, school district officials and industry representatives to provide this academic enrichment model.

UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle (ORMC)

Top-tier math circle, free and open to students interested in mathematics and eager to learn.

Latin American Institute (LAI)

Outreach at the LAI offer academic enrichment and professional development opportunities to local K-12 educators. Funded through a Title VI Federal Area Studies grant sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the LAI workshops offer analyses of major themes related to the Latin American Region. The workshops include comparative and...

K.A.M.P. (KIDS ART MUSEUM PROJECT)

K.A.M.P. is a unique family fundraiser that provides kids of all ages the chance to be creative with Los Angeles-based artists. Each year, local artists host hands-on art workshops throughout the museum.

Institute for Planets and Exoplanets (iPLEX)

Learn about planetary science and our place int the universe through hands-on demonstrations, workshops, lab tours, and talks by planetary scientists. The program is designed to bring the exciting world of planetary research to the local community and to help educate the next generation of UCLA planetary scientists. Instagram: @UCLAiPLEX...

Interaxon

To create and foster interest, excitement, and curiosity about the brain. We travel to elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools in disadvantaged areas of Los Angeles to work with students at schools receiving poor funding in the sciences.

I’m Going to College

The UCLA Athletic Department invites you and your school to participate in our I’m Going to College program, where your group will have the opportunity to attend a UCLA Football, UCLA Gymnastics, UCLA Women’s Basketball, and UCLA Men’s Volleyball game this season on a complimentary basis!

The UCLA History-Geography Project

The UCLA History-Geography Project at Center X is one of the sites of the California History Social Science Project. We collaborate with educational researchers, historians and practitioners to design and lead professional development programs that enrich K-12 history-social studies instruction. The focus of our work is teachers and students in...

Hammer Museum K-12 Tours

Tours of exhibitions at the Armand Hammer Museum offer students the opportunity to question and reflect on art, ideas, and the world through close looking, critical thinking, and dialogue in a welcoming setting. All guided and self-guided groups of 10 or more must be pre-arranged through the museum.

Hammer Museum Teacher Resources

Resources for K-12 teachers include professional development workshops and downloadable guides for engaging with art before, during, or after your visit to the museum.

Hammer Kids

Activities such as artist-led drop-in workshops, writing workshops, family-friendly movie screenings, and family experiences in the galleries offer various ways for kids and their families to experience the museum.

Geffen Playhouse

Our education and community engagement programs are uniquely designed so that students of all ages, from diverse communities of Los Angeles, may build a life-long relationship with theater arts through learning and creating. From our customized teaching artist workshops and student ticket pricing, to our carefully crafted Study Guides, our...

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden Tours

Tours of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden offer students the opportunity to question and reflect on art, ideas, and the world through close looking, critical thinking, and dialogue in a welcoming setting. Guided and self-guided tours of the Murphy Sculpture Garden are scheduled through the Hammer Museum.

Fowler Museum’s K-12 Guided Visits

We offer guided visits for the Fowler’s ongoing exhibition, Intersections: World Art, Local Lives. These engagements, which highlight different systems of knowledge defined by communities around the globe, past and present, support classroom learning in social studies/history, visual arts, and ethnic studies. We also offer guided visits of the museum’s...

Extension’s Education Department

Extension’s Education Department provides staff development, in-service, and professional outreach to practitioners at all levels of education. You can earn university professional development credit applicable to state licensing/credentialing requirements, salary advancement, or university/college degrees.

English Tutors

English tutors available for those students who require reinforcement in a particular English subject. To request a list of English Tutors, please send an email to Stephanie Bundy at graduate@english.ucla.edu.

Design for Sharing

Each year, Design for Sharing (DFS) brings thousands of young people from Los Angeles-area public schools to CAP UCLA venues for free performances and interactive and educational art-making activities during the school day. DFS programs are often a highlight of these students’ school experience, welcoming them into the joy of...

Curtis Center for Mathematics and Teaching

Aims to provide high quality mathematics activity for students in local schools. We hope to provide students with a view of mathematics as a creative reasoning and problem solving activity, with intrinsic beauty and meaningful application.

California Mathematics Project

The California Mathematics Project (CMP) is a K-16 network dedicated to providing students a rich, rigorous, and coherent mathematics curriculum taught by competent and confident mathematics teachers who foster ALL students’ proficiency in mathematics—achieving equity in quality. CMP enhances teachers’ mathematical content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge that is aligned...